In Search, utility sending program to another display

Electro · 04-04-2008, 04:57 PM

Is there a program to send a desire running GUI program from :0.0 to :0.1. Usually, I use DISPLAY=:0.1 command or I run it on the desire screen that I want it display.

The features that I will like in the program is using a mouse cursor to select the programs that I want to send to anther display.

I tried searching, but come up with nothing. If anybody did come across a program, please post it.

raskin · 04-06-2008, 02:14 AM

Search for xmove, maybe there are some GUI wrappers. The idea is the following:

1. If your application connected to ordinary X server, it is rather hard to move it to any other X server.
2. xmove is a proxy X server - you use it as your DISPLAY, and it can output windows to another X server of your choice with changing it on the fly.
3. It is purely command-line driven.
4. It has some drawbacks - I am not sure if it supports all extensions needed by different applications.

Electro · 04-06-2008, 06:58 PM

No other site besides Debian has xmove. I found a URL at http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmove.html. It seems I have to do extra work to include autoconf to ease compiling on my setup.

Thanks for suggesting.

raskin · 04-06-2008, 08:16 PM

Well, you need no autoconf.. You need imake package, and in xmove/ and xmovextrl/ you'll run xmkmf before make.